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TEXTILE DESIGN @ DMU | Currently based in Leicester, UK

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Pattern Visualisation

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Repeat Pattern Experimentation

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Structure - Bone/Body Structure Moodboard

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MTS - Custom Photoshop Brush

As part of my CAD work for my university course we are experimenting with making custom brushes on photoshop. This is my first attempt at a custom brush, looking at structure of the skeleton. I have very limited photoshop skills so am pleased with my results, however I will be attempting this task again to achieve better results. 

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Wassily Kandinsky - Artist Research

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art. Blue Segment is a 1921 painting by Wassily Kandinsky, across the canvas there are vibrant circles, lines, triangles and an array of shapes in different sizes which are used to attract attention. Kandinsky’s colour palette is full of vibrant yellows, blues, reds and greens each varying in tone to enhance the visual impact of the Blue Segment. I like the vibrant use of colours and the use of shapes within this piece at it creates a organized mess on the canvas, I like that the chaos of the piece grows as the painting expands to the right. The style of this piece reflects a surrealist, abstract style which I like as its similar to that of one of my favourite artists Salvador Dali who portrays a similar style. I like that Kandinsky doesn’t use traditional styles of art to portray feelings and themes within his work.

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Artist Research - LA, AM, JC

Laurie Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual imagery.

Chalkroom is a virtual reality work by Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang in which the reader flies through an enormous structure made of words, drawings and stories. Once you enter you are free to roam and fly. Words sail through the air as emails. They fall into dust. They form and reform. I really like Anderson’s immersive way of working, not just in her virtual technology work but in her music work as well.

Andre Masson was a French artist who known for his surrealist paintings, he was one of the most enthusiastic employers of automatic drawing, making a number of automatic works in pen and ink. Masson experimented with altered states of consciousness with artists such as Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris, Joan Miro, Georges Bataille, Jean Dubuffet and Georges Malkine, who were neighbours of his studio in Paris.

I like Masson’s work entitles “The Kill” (1994) as its very surrealist in style, the colours are bright and the shapes are really interesting. The painting is defined by the red streaks that are scattered throughout the canvas that are joined by various shapes of green, yellow and blue. The painting depicts Masson’s views of war and death from being a soldier during World War One. In his later lie Masson had erratic and violent tendencies that were reflected through his art.

John Cage was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage’s romantic partner for most of their lives. I really like Cage’s use of colour and shape within this piece as its brightly colours with some dark tones in the forefront which add depth to the piece. The screen print piece takes on the printing style of art that I really like, I like the style printing gives and the look printing adds to a piece.

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Cheeming Boey - Artist Research

Cheeming Boey is a Malaysian artist of Chinese descent. Primarily known only by his last name Boey, he is best recognised by his illustrations on foam coffee cups, his daily webcomic I Am Boey, and his autobiographical graphic novel When I Was A Kid.

I really like this piece of work as it depicts The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai, the original woodblock print depicts an enormous wave threatening three boats while Mount Fuji rises in the background. It is the first of Hokusai’s series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and is considered one of the most recognizable pieces of Japanese art in the world. I really like Boey’s adaptation of the art piece onto the foam cup as Boey combines it with a non-traditional art medium and doodle-ish style. I really like the pop-art style dots Boey uses to block out the background but still add depth to the piece.

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Keith Haring - Artist Research

Keith Haring was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of New York City street culture in the 1980s. Much of his work includes sexual allusions that helped Haring become an advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. Haring’s work grew to popularity from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways – chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images on blank black advertising-space backgrounds. He also painted figures on the lower part of the subway walls sitting on the floor. After public recognition he created larger scale works, such as colourful murals, many of them commissioned. His imagery has become a widely recognized visual language. His later work often addressed political and societal themes – especially homosexuality and AIDS – through his own iconography. Haring died on February 16, 1990, of AIDS-related complications. In 2014 Haring was one of the inaugural honourees in the Rainbow Honour Walk, a walk of fame in San Francisco’s Castro neighbourhood noting LGBTQ people who have “made significant contributions in their fields”. In June 2019, Haring was one of the inaugural fifty American “pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes” inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honour within the Stonewall National Monument.

Earlier this year, in February, my college group held a trip to New York City. During this trip we went to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), whilst going around MoMa I saw a wall displaying Keith Haring’s work, painted onto wooden panelling and mounted onto the wall. Seeing this piece influenced my work at college and continues to affect my work, Haring’s cartoonish creatures create a stylized abstract pattern. I really liked Haring’s use of imagery within his work, such as spaceships, hearts, crawling babies and winged that appear frequently.

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My first mini project of my Textile Design degree was a one day project in which we were to produce 3 images which represent who we are as people, the first image was to be a A6 image of our own, the second would be a version of our image expanded to A5, the last would be an expanded version of another students work. (I haven’t included this final image as I find it unfair for me to share another persons work when it included images of them, so for their privacy I have chosen to not include it.)

My first A6 image contains images of my dog, museum photos and a photo of myself. The image also contains manga pages from my favourite anime Hunter X Hunter, these images border the top left and bottom right corners of the image. I also included some doodles I produced, in the bottom left and top right corner.

The second image is the A5 expanded version, this image includes more manga extracts and images of my friends, myself and concerts I have been too. I also included some abstract brush strokes such as the yellow 3D squares along the top and down the right hand side, as well as the black and white squares down the left hand side. 

I enjoyed this one day project, although at the start struggled to decide how to present my ideas and work. We were placed into small groups to work with and exchange work over messenger, this helped in decided how to display my work and when we exchanged work it was really easy and showed everyone’s style of working.

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KEITH HARING STYLE IMITATION

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MEDUSA / BILLIE EILISH FOR PRINT DESIGN.

X THIS IS A PROPOSED IDEA FOR MY FMP, IT IS NOT A FINAL DESIGN. IF I GO THROUGH WITH THIS IDEA I WILL CONDUCT A PHOTOSHOOT AND USE MY OWN IMAGE X

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FMP SKETCHBOOK PAGES

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MEDUSA COLOUR STUDY

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COLOUR STUDY - GRAZIA CHIURI VS VAN HERPEN

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COLOUR STUDIES - TITIAN VS DALI

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STAIN GLASS RESEARCH

The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensional structures and sculpture. Modern vernacular usage has often extended the term "stained glass" to include domestic lead light and objects d'art created from foil glasswork exemplified in the famous lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

As a material stained glass is glass that has been coloured by adding metallic salts during its manufacture. The coloured glass is crafted into stained glass windows in which small pieces of glass are arranged to form patterns or pictures, held together (traditionally) by strips of lead and supported by a rigid frame. Painted details and yellow stain are often used to enhance the design. The term stained glass is also applied to windows in which the colours have been painted onto the glass and then fused to the glass in a kiln.

Stained glass, as an art and a craft, requires the artistic skill to conceive an appropriate and workable design, and the engineering skills to assemble the piece. A window must fit snugly into the space for which it is made, must resist wind and rain, and also, especially in the larger windows, must support its own weight. Many large windows have withstood the test of time and remained substantially intact since the Late Middle Ages. In Western Europe they constitute the major form of pictorial art to have survived. In this context, the purpose of a stained glass window is not to allow those within a building to see the world outside or even primarily to admit light but rather to control it. For this reason stained glass windows have been described as "illuminated wall decorations".

The design of a window may be abstract or figurative; may incorporate narratives drawn from the Bible, history, or literature; may represent saints or patrons, or use symbolic motifs, in particular armorial. Windows within a building may be thematic, for example: within a church – episodes from the life of Christ; within a parliament building – shields of the constituencies; within a college hall – figures representing the arts and sciences; or within a home – flora, fauna, or landscape.

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RENAISSANCE RESEARCH

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 14th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance architecture followed Gothic architecture and was succeeded by Baroque architecture. Developed first in Florence, with Filippo Brunelleschi as one of its innovators, the Renaissance style quickly spread to other Italian cities. The style was carried to France, Germany, England, Russia and other parts of Europe at different dates and with varying degrees of impact. Renaissance style places emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts, as they are demonstrated in the architecture of classical antiquity and in particular ancient Roman architecture, of which many examples remained. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aedicula replaced the more complex proportional systems and irregular profiles of medieval buildings.

Italy of the 15th century, and the city of Florence in particular, was home to the Renaissance. It is in Florence that the new architectural style had its beginning, not slowly evolving in the way that Gothic grew out of Romanesque, but consciously brought to being by particular architects who sought to revive the order of a past "Golden Age". The scholarly approach to the architecture of the ancient coincided with the general revival of learning. A number of factors were influential in bringing this about.

Italian architects had always preferred forms that were clearly defined and structural members that expressed their purpose. Many Tuscan Romanesque buildings demonstrate these characteristics, as seen in the Florence Baptistery and Pisa Cathedral. Italy had never fully adopted the Gothic style of architecture. Apart from the Milan Cathedral, (influenced by French Rayonnant Gothic), few Italian churches show the emphasis on vertical, the clustered shafts, ornate tracery and complex ribbed vaulting that characterise Gothic in other parts of Europe. The presence, particularly in Rome, of ancient architectural remains showing the ordered Classical style provided an inspiration to artists at a time when philosophy was also turning towards the Classical.